History of the Americas

Winner of a 2015 Catholic Press Award: Books for Teens and Young Adults (First Place).

Paramhansa Yogananda's classic Autobiography of a Yogi was more about the saints Yogananda met than about himselfin spite of the fact that Yogananda was much greater than many he described.

A gripping account of the man who emerged as a national hero through his military successes-and became the seventh President of the United States.

In 1861 young Joseph Twichell cut short his seminary studies to become a Union Army chaplain in New York's Excelsior Brigade.

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries northwestern Mexico was the scene of ongoing conflict among three distinct social groupsIndians, religious orders of priests, and settlers.

In A Late Encounter with the Civil War, Michael Kreyling confronts the changing nature of our relationship to the anniversary of the war that nearly split the United States.

Focusing on the impact of the Savannah River Plant (SRP) on the communities it created, rejuvenated, or displaced, this book explores the parallel militarization and modernization of the Cold War-era South.

The latter third of the twentieth century was a time of fundamental political transition across the South as increasing numbers of voters began to choose Republican candidates over Democrats.

In the mid-nineteenth century prophetic visions attributed to a woman named Madre Matiana roiled Mexican society.

LAJSA Book Award Winner, 2017, Latin American Jewish Studies Association As Cuba industrialized in the nineteenth century, an epochal realignment of the social order occurred.

On Slavery's Border is a bottom-up examination of how slavery and slaveholding were influenced by both the geography and the scale of the slaveholding enterprise.

Does Colorado's Grand Canyon hide an ancient city found by a Smithsonian Institution photographer?

Theres nothing quite like a pointed question to elicit an honest answer.

In this concise, lively look at the past, present, and future of voting, a journalist examines the long and continuing fight for voting equality, why so few Americans today vote, and innovative ways to educate and motivate them; included are checklists of what to do before election day to prepare to vote and encourage others.

This is the fascinating, detailed account of the rise and fall of the largest banking house ever before established in the South, whose financial misfeasance during the prosperous twenties led to its eventual collapse and brought ruin to numerous innocent investors.

Over a two-year period, author Sana Loue and her research team followed the lives of fifty-three Puerto Rican women living with severe mental illness as they coped with daily challenges in the areas of family, romantic relationships, employment, social services, substance use, and health care.

Alaska in the 1960's was truly the Last Frontier.

Where do you seek God?

A Civil War Monitor best book of 2020A group biography of the activists who defended human rights and defined the Republican Party's greatest hourIn 1862, the ardent abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison summarized the events that were tearing apart the United States: "e;There is a war because there was a Republican Party.

Imagine the tension that existed between the emerging nations and governments throughout the Latin American world and the cultural life of former enslaved Africans and their descendants.

Get the Summary of Ken Johnson's Ancient Book of Enoch in 20 minutes.

At the Heart of the Borderlands is the first book-length study of Africans and Afro-descendants in the frontiers of Spanish America.

Modern Language Association's Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, Honorable Mention, 2016Born between 1568 and 1580, Alva Ixtlilxochitl was a direct descendant of Ixtlilxochitl I and Ixtlilxochitl II, who had been rulers of Texcoco, one of the major city-states in pre-Conquest Mesoamerica.

Honorable Mention, Premio al Mejor Libro en Humanidades, Latin American Studies AssociationMexico Section, 2025 Most scholars study postrevolutionary Mexico as a period in which cultural production significantly shaped national identity through murals, novels, essays, and other artifacts that registered the changing political and social realities in the wake of the Revolution.

A thorough and authoritative single-volume reference to the American presidency, from George Washington to Donald Trump.

A study of how the economic meltdown of 2008-09 was a chance to reset and what our economy, society, and geography will look like in the future.

Grace Mazza Urbanski, former director of Children's Ministry for the Apostleship of Prayer (now the Popes Worldwide Prayer Network), gives parents practical advice on how to help children find opportunities to pray throughout the day in Pray with Me: Seven Simple Ways to Pray with Your Children.

1993 Choice Outstanding Academic Book, sponsored by Choice Magazine.

Prophet from Plains covers Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter's major achievements and setbacks in light of what has been at once his greatest asset and his greatest flaw: his stubborn, faith-driven integrity.

Early in the twentieth-century, B.

Christopher Wesley is on the front lines of youth ministry.

From the foremost authority on the famed Georgia barrier island, here is the first in-depth look at Jekyll Island's early history.

In this study of antebellum African American print culture in transnational perspective, Erica L.

Winner of a 2015 Catholic Press Award: Books for Teens and Young Adults (First Place).

Out of a slave rebellion, Haiti was forged as an independent nation.

In the first book written specifically for the 11 million divorced Catholics in the United States, Lisa DuffyCatholicMatch.